[ewg] Re: OFED 1.4.2 requires rebuild of kernel modules on each node

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Sending this to the EWG openfabrics list,
> since this seems to be an OFED build/installation issue
> rather than a general code problem.
> 
> One thing that you might try is to instead of copying the
> entire build directory and re-runing ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
> on each system, instead, after building on one node,
> just copy the binrary RPMS directory and 
> the uninstall script to the other nodes,
> Then just run the uninstall script and
> install the RPMS manually... e.g, 
> 
> ./uninstall.sh
> cd ./RPMS/redhat-release-xxxx/x86_64
> rpm -i *
> 
> This method has worked for me in the past. 
> 
> woody
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-rdma-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Bryan
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:22 AM
> To: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: OFED 1.4.2 requires rebuild of kernel modules on each node
> 
> I was referred to this list by the general mailing list on OFED.
> Emailing from my personal address since Lotus Notes insists that
> anything it sends has to contain some portion of HTML.
> 
> This problem was observed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 3.  I
> searched the list but did not see anything immediately applicable.
> We've seen issues similar in the past where we were able to modify the
> script to solve an RPM that didn't match the expected naming scheme,
> but did not see anything immediately when looking at the scripts for
> this version.
> 
> Copied from an internal bug reporting tool:
> 
> On installing OFED 1.4.2, the tarball was extracted, in directory the code
> was extracted to, ./install.pl was run and all components of OFED were
> build/installed with the default settings.  Then this directory was
> copied to another node, and ./install.pl -c ofed.conf was run.  Previously
> this would just do the install of the already built components, but with
> OFED 1.4.2, the kernel RPM gets re-built when this is done.
> 
> This means that the build tools have to be on each node, and that
> deployment of OFED takes longer.
> 
> Bryan Reese -- breese at us.ibm.com
> e1350 Linux Cluster Test Engineer
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Hi Bryan,
This can happen when some of the selected kernel components (in 
ofed.conf) are not supported on the current kernel.
Have you seen the following message while running install.pl script?
"<package> is not available on this platform"

Send me please your ofed.conf and the kernel version.

Regards,
Vladimir